Mercury contamination and dynamics in the sediment of the Second Songhua River, China

Soil and Sediment Contamination

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 397-411

  Lin, Chunye ^a   He, Mengchang ^a   Zhou, Yuxiang ^a   Hu, Lijuan ^a   Guo, Wei ^a   Quan, Xiangchun ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contamination; Dynamics; Mercury; Second Songhua River; Sediment

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL WASTES; MERCURY (METAL); PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SPECTROMETRY; WATER QUALITY;

ATOMIC FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY; ECOLOGICAL RISK; EFFLUENT DISCHARGE; SECOND SONGHUA RIVER (SSR); SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

WATER POLLUTION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA;

EID: 34249670748     PISSN: 15320383     EISSN: 15497887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15320380701404573     Document Type: Article

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